The King Of Fighters 2000/2001 Preview

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By Andrew Burnes

It may be a couple of years late, but Worthplaying knocked out a preview of this Playstation II beat 'em up anyway:

The King of Fighters is one of the flagship series of fighting games, although it's also somewhat obscure for many Americans. Odds are, unless you're in a part of the country that has a really big Chinatown or Little Tokyo, or you're a serious fighting-game fan, you haven't even heard of the game.

The short summary is this; a cast of a few dozen fighters, consisting of a blend of original characters with the cream of the crop of SNK's long career of fighting games, are placed into teams of four. (This was not always the case, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.) They battle it out for the best of five single-elimination rounds, one character vs. one character, until all the members of a given team have lost. The winners move on.

In each King of Fighters game, the tournament has been usually the domain of some monstrously evil organization or individual, planning to use the immense power of fist-fighting to his best advantage.

The new King of Fighters two-pack for the PS2 carries on this tradition, as it contains the second and third parts of the trilogy of KOF's concerned with the terrorist organization NESTS, an evil group whose schemes tend not to make a hell of a lot of sense.